[MurryMom]

I agree that I don't like class warefare...

LOL!!! Why don't we all just admit that class warfare has been going on ever since January 2001, and that Bush's class is winning? Why else would the Bushies reduce the estate tax (paid by only the top 5% of all estates), rather than the payroll tax that is paid by all working stiffs?

BTW, don't you admire Kerry's investment skills? He could have invested his money in the stock market like the rest of us, and look how the market has tanked since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

[sinkspur]

He could have invested his money in the stock market like the rest of us, and look how the market has tanked since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

Kerry doesn't have any money.

It's Turazah's money.

Kerry's like Clinton: never had a private-sector job in his life; always lived off the government teat.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! I'M a Bushie! Where IS MY MONEY???? I don't live in the lap of luxury!!!! I DEMAND MY $$$$$$$$$$$

[Stew Padasso]

Your belief set amounts to theft. You do realize this, right?

[nothingnew]

...and look how the market has tanked since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

Hi MM...long time no smell.

FMCDH

[.38sw]

John Kerry's investment skills? I guess if you can call marrying two wealthy women as making an "investment", then yeah. He's doing a great job.

[windchime]

"BTW, don't you admire Kerry's investment skills?"

His investments are in rich women. I am not willing to invest in anything that elicits THIS response.

 

[speekinout]

The good news is that we have more and more people who want to take care of themselves, rather than people like you who rely on the gov't or an "evil corporation" to take care of them.
People who expect someone else to take care of them are never happy, and usually angry. People who want to take care of themselves are happy with the life they've made for themselves.
Kerry is a master at finding someone to take care of him. Do you think he'll share Teresa's money with you?

[FreeAtlanta]

[ErnBatavia]

since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

You really believe this, don't you?

[supercat]

Why else would the Bushies reduce the estate tax (paid by only the top 5% of all estates), rather than the payroll tax that is paid by all working stiffs?

The "Estate Tax" may not affect the bottom 95% of the populace (at least not directly) but it really doesn't hit the top 1% either. It--like a great many of the liberals' favorite taxes--targets those who are "making it", but aren't there yet.

If someone has a few million dollars in assets but needs to keep most of their assets liquid in their lifetime (e.g. a family farm or business) they'll get clobbered by the estate tax. Those who don't need to keep their assets liquid can generally avoid the estate tax. To be sure, a billionaire is likely to keep a few million dollars of assets liquid and so may pay more in total estate taxes than someone with a business worth just over a billion, but the much larger portion of the billionaire's wealth will escape taxation.

Given that illiquid funds generally produce less tax revenue than funds which are kept liquid, the government--by encouraging wealthy people to set up various trusts, foundations, and such that are immune from estate taxes, also encourages them to stash their money in a way which produces both less revenue for them and less revenue for the government than other means which they'd otherwise use.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Why else would the Bushies reduce the estate tax (paid by only the top 5% of all estates),

WAIT! TIME OUT! BEEP BEEP! I just thought of something you said....

Looking at your guy's humble homes...you should be GLAD GW reduced that estate tax!

[Old Yankee]

You don't like class warfare, yet you oppose a tax reduction because someone wealthier might benefit? You're quoting bumper stickers and repeating tired old chants. You don't believe what you're saying and it confounds me that it's so easy to recruit economic, intelletual and social failures by telling them "It's not your fault". The President didn't cause your failure, whatever it is, and John Kerry for darn sure isn't going to fix it for you. Get a grip.

[The Bat Lady]

#34 since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

Another one who hasn't read the Constitution. One more time... if there is a dispute it goes to the State House and Senate (ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE of Fla.) and since they were republicans it would have been Bush

IF there still was a dispute it would have gone to the US House (ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE) which was majority Republican and it would have gone for BUSH

That is ONLY if Bush had not WON EVERY count 7 or 8 times.

Get over it, GORE LOST.

I know that the DEMS cheated massively (at least 1 million illiegal aliens who got citizenship w/o their FBI files and felons voting) but GORE STILL LOST.

That includes the recount that the liberal press did a year later and GORE LOST.

When are you going to "MOVE ON"?

[olde north church]

If you send your real name and address, I'll overnight those batteries you so desperately need.

[SteelTrap]

...Bush's class is winning? Why else would the Bushies reduce the estate tax (paid by only the top 5% of all estates), rather than the payroll tax that is paid by all working stiffs?...

You should take a look at who pays the taxes in this country. Bush cut taxes for everyone who pays taxes. But I agree the payroll tax is an abomination and should be replaced by a flat tax - for everyone.

BTW, when poor working class stiffs start hiring, I'll start working to cut their taxes too. That is when they start paying their fair share. </sarcasm off>

[SteelTrap]

You worked hard to get our attention. Here, please accept this tee-shirt as a token of our appreciation:

[IYAS9YAS]

Um, your ignorance is showing. But, since you're a DU shill, it won't matter to you. Bush also reduced the payroll tax. The market has been proven to be on a downward trend before Bush was ELECTED. The supreme court did not select anyone. The supreme court told the democraps that they couldn't keep re-counting until they got to the one turnout in their favor. Regardless of the fact that, no matter how many times they counted, they still couldn't get the win for Gore.

MurryMom, you are the Yugo in the fast lane of the Autobahn of life.

[Condor51]

Since you're a woman, I'll be 'nice'... Your comments are ABSURD.

And maybe, just maybe, if you knew what the hell you were talking about, they'd only be sophomoric, simplistic, or just plane STOO-PID!

Now get back in the kitchen and bake some cookies and leave the 'heavy lifting', like Estate TAX laws to people who know what they are and the effects they have on normal folk.

(oh, not too much flour in the cookie batter)

[AgThorn]

BTW, don't you admire Kerry's investment skills? He could have invested his money in the stock market like the rest of us,

You mean rather than invest in two rich women? whose money again are you referring to?

....and look how the market has tanked since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

So are you a permanent troll here or something, that doesn't agree with all the recounts (dozen or so wasn't it?) that showed Bush the winner, as well as the electoral college system that elected him? Do you also not remember that Nixon got more votes than Kennedy, but the same Electoral College gave the election to Kennedy (even though the stuffed ballots in Texas and Illinois were so obvious to see)?

And why am I having to write this response to you on Freepers? One would think I am at DU having to defend our electoral system, restate historical facts, to some bush hating liberal ...